SERIOUS ROBBERIES OF JEWELLERY.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIV, Issue 3349, 10 April 1868, Page 2

SERIOUS ROBBERIES OF JEWELLERY.

A' bobbiry of jewellery has jut been discovered, by ths good management of the police, aided by » stroke of good lack. A. man named Richard Dawldns was yesterday, while the civil business was going on before Mr. fieckham, making himself- so^ conspicuous' and noisy outside the^Ctourthouse that Detective Murphy and Sergeant Even took him into custody. He would not have been obarged -with anything more serious than drunkenness, bad it not been noticed by Murphy that, on the usual search being about to be begun, Dawkins, even though more than half seas over, pulled something from one of '"his pockets and concealed itabtfht his ireas. A. diligent search was made, and at length was found, concealed in rather a cunnings iVay, a jewellery box containing three gold pins, two pairs of fairings, and one or two smaller artioles of jewellery. Vt course it was quite clear that Richard Dawkins aad not come honestly by tbeie Mtiola, and, no aotice, of any robbery having been giYen^at^the Polioe-office, the detectives had~to -exercise their ingenuity ' to^disoo?* : anything farther.

Detective Ternahan, however, found ouj&n a ahott timt thai^the articles, with othen, had been stolen from the house of Mr. R. H. Stevenson, Smt Hi^'J^reat North Road. He alio discovered whereV two gold* rings had been.pledged bs> a miin^ who^it - it surmised, got them from one of tfie principals in the robbery^, {Jn o Murphy prooee<Hnk*out to "Mr. q Stevenson's lipuse, he found that it*nad beenjen-' tared by rawing one ef tnV baok/winttows.' 'M*. + Stevenson and his family had left theionse on Wednesdaj to spend, Thursday^ arid' Friday with a friend in town. He was at'on'ce communicated with, and went oat last night to, make an inventory of the articles "stolen. It is thought tb»t the house mart hfcve been entered twioe. A young man named Goldrimitb, who was concerned in the burglary at Mr. Cotter's house, Queen-street, has also been taken into custody, together with several others who are believed to be more or less implicated in the affair. On Wednesday afternoon last, the house of Mr. Chisholm, Farnell, was broken into" by some person, during the absence of the occupants, and a quantity of jewellery carried off, the property of Mr. J. W. Cmiholm. It is supposed that the, dwelling was entered by the thief through a window which had been left unfastened. A gold chain and locket, and a pair of sleeve links, value £6, were carried away. We believe that some clue has been obtained by the police, which may result in a discovery of the perpetrators. Mr; Justice Moore has remarked, at the opening of the tyrp or three last seisions of the Supreme Conrt, on the lightness , of the calendar, and congratulated the Grand Jury upon the absence of serious crime in Auckland. By present appearances, he will not be able to do that next session. There can be little doubt that the small number of prisoners before {fhe Court was owing to the fact that most of the desperate characters had, on one charge or another, got inaide the Stockade. Lately, a good man/ of these have bet n liberated by expiry of sentence.